50 Breakthroughs Set the Agenda for Research into Global Dev...
Fifty years after the term “intermediate technology” came to describe a nascent category of engineering and design, the field...
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Evaluating Household Energy Resources in Rural Kenya
Communities in rural Kenya are still heavily dependent on wood fuel and other biomass for their basic energy needs. Reliance on biomass can lead to health and environmental deterioration:...
We Have the Blueprint for Liveable, Low-Carbon Cities. We Ju...
Over the past seven years more than 100 research projects at the Co-operative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living, in collaboration with industry across Australia, have pondered a very...
Reflections on a Review of Studies on the Physical and Emoti...
Growing up in India, I was fortunate enough to have a piped supply of municipal water in my home. I was able to get a glass of water to...
Engineering Gives Me a Chance to Make the World Better
Editor’s note: This profile of an engineer is a contribution to Engineering for Change courtesy of the international infrastructure and development consultancy SMEC Holdings, a member of the Surbana Jurong...
As More Developing Countries Reject Plastic Waste Exports, W...
Less than two years after China banned most imports of scrap material from abroad, many of its neighbors are following suit. On May 28, 2019, Malaysia’s environment minister announced...
Solutions for Resilience and Peace Building Across the World
About 90 percent of USAID’s water priority countries are conflict-affected or fragile. In 2018, over 60 million people around the world were affected by more than 280 natural disasters. Effective water...
Solutions to Keep Food on the Table in a Changing Climate
The world’s food production is in jeopardy because the fertile layer of soil that people depend on to plant crops is...
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Black and Decker Introduces a Solar Irrigation Pump for Indian Farms
Solar-powered water pumps have officially entered the mainstream. Stanley Black & Decker, the multinational conglomerate widely known for its...
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India’s Universal Power Supply May Be Only a Subsidy Policy Away
India has almost achieved the historic goal of connecting every household to the electricity grid. The next challenge is...
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A Tool Kit Helps Designers Create Products with the Planet in Mind
Engineers often run into the same problem when creating new products designed to make a positive impact: unintended consequences....
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A Day in the Life: E4C’s Research Fellowship Translates to Job Skills
Engineering for Change follows up with the talented graduates of our Research Fellowship to learn how they apply the...
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A Product Design Engineer Field Tests Essential Technologies in Rural India
Harsh Vyas foregoes the long flights that engineers in global development often take before they can test essential technologies in...
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Field Test: Corn Shellers Made a Successful Demo Tour in Rural India
Harsh Vyas is a graduate of Engineering for Change’s Research Fellowship program during which he researched products that meet...
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Lehigh University’s Full-Ride Scholarship for Social Entrepreneurs – Five Questions with Program Director Kevin Ezzell
Few advanced academic programs offer a formal education in social entrepreneurship. The reason may be as simple as the...
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Counting Heads: Revisiting Early Research into Sensors for Water Pumps and Stoves
The inaugural issue of Demand: ASME Global Development Review published one of the early case studies of SWEET Sensors...
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A Mix of Water Purification Technologies from Low-Tech Disaster Relief to Big Data
Though the amount of freshwater on Earth has remained more or less the same, a rapidly increasing global population...
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